Today I submitted my sessions for the Nwa TechFest, hopefully I will get some of them accepted. If you want to speak please go submit your sessions!
Here is the session info, I would love some feedback on the topics.
Getting Started to ASP.NET MVC3
This session will teach you the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC web application using Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC3.
Here is what you will learn:
- How to create a new ASP.NET MVC project
- How to create ASP.NET MVC controllers and views
- How to create a new database using the Entity Framework code-first paradigm
- How to retrieve and display data
- How to edit data and enable data validation
Getting git: Distributed Version Control
You may have heard a lot of buzz about the distributed version control system called git. It has been very popular with open source projects and was developed by Linus Torvalds to use by the Linux Kernel team.
Here is what you will learn:
- Why git?
- First Steps
- Basic Workflow
- How to clone repositories
- How to work with remote repositories
The Creamy Goodness of Nuget!
NuGet is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development.
There are a large number of useful 3rd party open source libraries out there for the .NET platform, but for those not familiar with the OSS ecosystem, it can be a pain to pull these libraries into a project.
Here is what you will learn:
- What is nuget?
- How to add packages to your project
- How to update packages in your project
- How to host your own package repository
- How to create and publish your own packages
I am happy to announce that we have selected the charities for the 2011 Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp. The full list of charities and non-profits can be found on the Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp site located at http://nwagivecamp.org.
We are still in need of event staff and team volunteers. If you are intersted please see the information on the site and register.
I have confirmed I will be attending and speaking that the Houston TechFest 2010 on October 9th, 2010. I will be presenting my Planning Poker session, recording interviews for User Group Radio and of course talking community any chance I get.
I am also working with Zain Naboulsi about organizing a Community Leadership Town Hall Meeting the night before the conference. This will be a dinner with an open space/fish bowl style discussion on creating, building, and sustaining community.
Looks like the Houston TechFest site hasn’t bee updated yet so here is the info on my session:
Estimate Your Requirements with Planning Poker
Planning Poker is a consensus-based estimation technique for estimating, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of tasks in software development . It is a variation of the Wideband Delphi method. In this session you will learn not only what planning poker is but how to facilitate it with your team. Using Planning Poker to estimate task on your project is not only accurate its fun.
A strange thing happened this past week at the Northwest Arkansas TechFest, several of us were sitting around in the speaker room talking about conferences and trying to determine if Microsoft would be have a Professional Developer Conference (PDC) this year. News from our Microsoft Developer Evangelist was that they had been told no PDC this year. We also had several discussions about what would be talked about, I mean there doesn’t seem to be that much new stuff scheduled to ship.
Well it looks like there will be a Microsoft PDC 2010, Chris Koenig just announced it on his blog “Microsoft PDC 2010”.
Looking at the Microsoft PDC 10 site I noticed the same things that Chris points out in his blog post that differs from previous PDCs.
Held on Microsoft Campus 2 days instead of 3 Registration price is reduced to $1,000 I guess if Microsoft can host a huge number of MVPs for a summit once a year, they should be able to host this easily enough. Actually will probably be easier.
Look like the focus is going to be on “Cloud Services, Phone, Tools & Technologies, Internet Explorer and Gaming”.
Keep checking on the main site http://microsoftpdc.com for more information.
The Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group is planning some awesome events for the coming year. To be able to get these events of the ground we need to get together and work on the websites. If you have some time pack up your laptop and join us on July 11th, from noon till whenever for an evening of fun and code where we will get started working on sites for the Northwest Arkansas Give Camp and Northwest Arkansas Community Camp events.
If you plan on showing up let me know by registering.